THE ROUND HOUSE

By Louise Erdrich

A Native American boy on the Ojibwa reservation in North Dakota seeks justice for an attack on his mother in this coming-of-age mystery novel about tribal jurisdiction that helped spark the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Read more

HOW WE BECAME HUMAN

By Joy Harjo

Poetry about nature, spirituality, violence, reservation life, and Native American culture and mythology, including poems from She Had Some Horses, make up this collection from Oklahoma Muscogee (Creek) Nation writer and musician Joy Harjo. Read more

TO LIVE

By Yu Hua

An influential book in China, Yu Hua’s epic novel To Live tells the story of a spoiled son of a rich landlord who transforms into a kind-hearted peasant as he and his family endure the ravages of war and starvation. Read more

STATION ELEVEN

By Emily St. John Mandel

In this post-apocalyptic novel about the power of art and relationships, a violent prophet threatens a band of traveling actors after a devastating flu pandemic wipes out civilization as we know it. Read more

EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU

By Celeste Ng

The oldest daughter of a Chinese American, biracial couple in 1970s small-town Ohio is found drowned in a lake, leaving her family to solve the mystery of her death and grapple with buried secrets. Read more

CITIZEN: AN AMERICAN LYRIC

By Claudia Rankine

Combining poetry, commentary, visual art, quotations, slogans, and film scripts, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen lays bare moments of racism that can surface in everyday encounters, in sports, and in the media.
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THIS BOY’S LIFE

By Tobias Wolff

THE LATEHOMECOMER

By Kao Kalia Yang

A memoir written by a Hmong-American with national distribution, The Latehomecomer is a first-hand account of the journey many Hmong families made from the jungles of Laos during the Vietnam War to a crowded refugee camp in Thailand to a life in public housing in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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WAYS OF GOING HOME

By Alejandro Zambra

Alejandro Zambra is part of a generation shielded from reality by parents who were victims of, or accomplices to, brutal human rights violations in Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship, which he explores in his novella about a young boy and the writer who’s writing the boy’s story. Read more